“Cutting the cake” is an honor. Whether you’re getting married, retiring, or celebrating a birthday, the task usually falls to a special person on their special day. I’m not one to nitpick the ...

You’ve seen it, you know it, you’ve been stumped by it — the “is it cake” viral videos where almost anything can be a seemingly normal object and then with the slice of a knife viewers discover that ...

Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the Harvard computer scientist has three children who among them have celebrated more than two ...